Nature Photography from the Mississippi Coast and Beyond

Dauphin Island Wednesday I had planned to go fishing on the Bird Barge, with Byron, Ray and Mike, but Mother Nature had other plans, blowing 15 to 20 MPH out of the northeast. Though the fish would likely not notice, the four of us would have been bounced about the Mississippi Sound like a cork.…

Spring Migration April 10, 2026 Patty, the kids and I headed up to Boggy Slough in the Pascagoula Wildlife Management Area at daylight. We barely got off the highway before Patty said stop, there were birds singing all around us. It was a beautiful clear morning, the morning temperature was perfect; requiring a light jacket.…

Graceful & Ungainly – all wrapped in one feathery package! Patty was off with birder friends Saturday morning, and on a whim I stopped by Lake Mars. Just off the breakwater west of the channel, what I suspect was a school of Pogies (Menhaden) had the pelicans in a full-on feast. For those of you,…
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

Rockin Rock Ranch Birdfeeders Sometimes you do not appreciate what you have until it is gone. These photos are of a typical day at the bird feeders on our Ranch in Arkansas. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild” movie The…
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